The Russian Generalissimo is attributed to the words of how important it is to betray the remains of the military who died in battle. We checked the correctness of such an attribution.
As a quote from Suvorov, the expression that interests us is presented in a variety of collections with aphorisms of famous people, including in Russian -speaking "Wikisytatnik" And on the portal Citaty.net. This phrase behind the author’s authorship can be found on sites Moscow State University and published by the Russian Foreign Ministry "International life", in the magazine "Amateur", reports of television channels "Mir 24" And Euronews, in the newspaper "Arguments and Facts", V thematic And regional Media. Mentioning quotes is easy to find in social networks.
Several texts have been preserved behind the authorship of the famous commander. Probably the most famous of them - "Science to win", a collection of instructions and considerations of Suvorov regarding warfare. In this essay, we could not find the phrase of interest to us. In 1986, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Issued A collection, which included almost 700 letters of Suvorov with additions and historical comments. Our search for this publication was also unsuccessful.
The earliest text in which we found a phrase about the “last buried soldier” and in which Suvorov was attributed to Suvorov, dates from the spring of 1990. In the April issue of Radio magazine I went out The note “This must be alive”, dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and dedicated to the participation of radio amateurs in the work of search detachments. The entry to this text begins as follows: "The war is over when the last soldier is buried." These words of Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov became the meaning and content of the patriotic movement of a large group of amateur radio-folk-voltage, participants in the All-Union Radio Expiction "Victory".
At the same time, it would be mistaken to consider this note the first source from which it became known about the quote from Suvorov. In 2004, the Dutch researcher Marius Brookmeyer published the book Stalin, Russians and their war, in which also He mentioned The statement of interest to us (in English translation it sounds like You can never consider a war finished until the lasteer has been comitted to the earth). As a source of information, a historian He called it A letter from a certain S. Kashurko, written back in 1989, that is, the quote from Suvorov was known at least a year before the publication in the journal Radio. Probably Brookmeyer talked with Stepan Kashurko - in 2005 "New Gazeta" called His "head of the center for the search for and perpetuating missing and dead warriors." Some sources mention that Kashurko also presented as “Assistant Marshal Konev on special assignments” (this is subsequently Disputed The granddaughter of the Soviet military leader).
The new wave of popularity of the phrase, apparently, was in 1995, when the 50th anniversary of Victory was celebrated. Its references can be found in one of the numbers of the Russian Foreign Ministry "Diplomatic messenger", collection "Forever in the memory of the people", the materials of the conference "The 50th anniversary of the great victory over fascism: history and modernity" and other sources. Apparently, the expression remained popular among representatives of search detachments - for example, in 1998 in the German der Spiegel it Given In the article on the rebellration of the remains of German soldiers who died in the territory of the former USSR.
Thus, we were not able to find reliable evidence that the famous Russian commander is the author of the phrase “war is not finished until the last soldier” or close analogues is buried. Judging by the data available in the public domain, Suvorov began to ascribe this statement by the heads of search detachments at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Already much later, the quote has become popular in the Russian and foreign press, but often it Continue Present as apocryphal.
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